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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
THE VENEERED SEEDLING . 
Comment Regarding an Old Peach with a New Name—Who Has 
Not Seen and Eaten the Nameless Fence Corner Peach — 
The Temptation of Every Child—The Delight of the 
Frisky Pig—The Downfall of the Farmer 
and the Foe of Every Nurseryman. 
For sixteen years we have run up against a peach that has 
baffled our efforts to introduce anything else in the way of a 
peach, says G. A. Gamble, Fort Smith, Ark., in the Arkansas 
Fruit Grower. For sixteen years we have tried to ignore this 
peach, but to no purpose. It doesn’t pay to buck against a 
success. Some Tennessee tree dealers tried it by introducing 
their old budded varieties, but the people laughed them to 
scorn. So the dealers sold the people of Arkansas twenty 
thousand dollars worth of these seedlings at 50 cents to $ 1.00 
per tree. The people would have it, so what was the use to 
offer them anything else ? This peach has come to stay. It 
has endeared itself to the heart of nearly every farmer in this 
section. 
Well, this peach has never had a name. It is called a 
“ seedlin’” but a very appropriate name would be, “The 
Veneered Seedling.” The reason we think this an appropriate 
name is because the flesh of the peach reminds me of the 
veneering on a ten dollar sewing machine, being about one- 
sixteenth of an inch thick. No matter how full the crop or 
how dry the season you will always find the seed full size, 
and the peach has enough fuzz on it to keep it warm till 
Christmas if it would last that long. 
You will find from five to fifteen of these trees in the back 
yard of every farm house. Occasionally on the farm of 
a prominent citizen who has risen to the distinction of 
“ Esquire” (that means justice of the peace), or has in some 
way acquired the title of Colonel, Judge or Captain ; or has 
succeeded in settling a half dozen sons-in-law around him, we 
have seen as many as seventy-five of these famous peach trees 
growing 
You might not be attracted by the looks of this nasty, little, 
“ onery,” one-sided, shriveled-up peach, but it looks better 
than it tastes. It reminds me of the man’s cow : He said a 
quart of her milk would make a half gallon of butter ; we 
came near saying that from four bushels of these peaches you 
will get five bushels of seed, but we will modify it by saying 
that five bushels of the peaches will contain about four 
bushels of seed, which leaves one-half bushel of peeling and a 
half bushel of veneering. Remember the veneering is the 
part that you are expected to eat. You only have to peel and 
cut five bushels of these famous peaches in order to get a half 
bushel of veneering. 
Another peculiar trait of this peach is that it will reproduce 
itself. You can plant the seed in the fall or winter and in the 
spring they will sprout and grow trees. These trees, in the 
course of two or three years, will bear fruit and it is sure to be 
peaches. Any farmer will assure you of this fact, whether you 
believe it or not. They may be white, yellow, red, freestone 
or cling, but the trees are sure to produce peaches. 
Another feature about this peach is that when they begin 
ripening they last for two weeks. 
They begin ripening about the 10 th of August and continue 
till the 20 th or 25 th, if the season is favorable. This gives the 
women folks plenty of time to dry sufficient quantity to use 
till the next crop comes in. A half bushel of dried peaches 
will last an ordinary sized family the other fifty weeks in the 
year. The people in the towns sometimes can peaches, but 
the people in the country don’t care much for them, and as 
the cans cost 50 cents to 75 cents per dozen, they are con¬ 
sidered too expensive. 
You should see these trees if you are not familiar with 
them. They grow twenty feet high. 
Of course you can’t stand on the ground and reach a single 
peach, but if they are worth anything they are worth climbing 
for. Usually the trees bear such a full crop that all the limbs 
break off about six or seven feet high, but they outgrow it in 
two or three years and are in shape for another crop, if the 
season happens to be favorable. 
Take it all in all the peach crop don’t amount to much— 
with some farmers. They say “ so much trash is not healthy.” 
If the peach crop should last over two weeks the children 
would be sick. They are really glad when it is over. There 
is not much satisfaction in eating them and they have tried 
marketing them and that don’t pay. Grocerymen say that 
this veneered peach will go further, that is last longer, than 
any other peach they can get. They only have to buy a 
bushel and put the price down to 25 or 30 cents and they will 
remain unsold for days. Oh, they are stayers ; why, they say 
the very sight of them seems to be enough. Their customers 
stand and look at them a few moments and walk away with 
their appetites fully satisfied. 
Of course they have read about how fruit raisers in other 
sections have made thousands of dollars by shipping carloads 
of budded peaches to the Northern markets, but the cunning 
farmer will tell you that it sounds too “fishy ” for him. It 
looks nice on paper, but he has tried the markets at home and 
he don’t want anything to do with those abroad. They will 
tell you that they “ shook off ” a load of peaches and took 
them to town and had to bring part of them back, and if our 
towns can’t use a wagon load, how is Chicago to manage to 
consume a carload ? 
The average farmer is so well satisfied with what he has it 
appears like it would be a sin to disturb him in his present 
satisfied condition. Some people don’t believe the scriptures 
which says “ Man wants but little here below,” but it’s so. So 
mote it be. 
The dutiable imports of plants, shrubs and vines amounted to 
$100,749 in November, 1900, against $95,883 in the same month of the 
year previous. 
A bill to incorporate the Society of American Florists and Ornamental 
Horticulturists was introduced in the United States Senate by Mr. 
Proctor, on January 17th. 
James A. Titus, Nemaha, Neb., died on January 12, aged 69 years. 
He was born in Rhode Island and had resided in Nebraska 45 years. 
He was a prominent Mason and was the senior member of the Titus 
Nursery Company. 
A company organized for the purpose of insuring fruit trees, vines 
and plants against loss from hail and wind has been incorporated in Des 
Moines, la. The directors and incorporators are P. L Fowler, W. S 
Tedrick, W. S. Richards, A. M. Parker and W. F. Gormley of Des 
Moines. 
There were exported during the season up to December 15th, from 
the United States and Canada to Liverpool, London, Glasgow and 
other points, 885,657 barrels of apples, as against 928.429 barrels in 
1899-00. The falling off of 42,000 barrels is attributed to low prices in 
England. 
